GSoC Status Update

Hello everyone,

I am nearly finished converting Pod::Html to use Pod::Simple, which produces
a great feeling, especially compared to the initial overwhelmed feeling I
had before trekking through this module.

Over the past week I have accomplished several goals, including:
implementing a --recurse flag for Pod::Simple::Search to enable/disable
recursing through directories (enabled by default), which is needed because
Pod::Html offers the same flag; implementing a flag in Pod::Simple::Xhtml to
anchor certain =item directives (certain meaning the type of =item that is a
definition list, not a bulleted or numbered list), which is needed in order
to link to those =item directives; and completing several test cases (and
fixing bugs revealed by said test cases).

To call this module finished, I need to complete one final test case, fix up
a few others (explained below), and implement a switch in Pod::Html to
disable the POD ERRORS section from appearing in converted pod files (in
case some don't want that section).

The meeting I had with my mentors today is pushed to
https://github.com/rjbs/TPF-GSoC-Pod/ if you want to read what transpired. A
main point was that I need to modify the test cases that rely on
/usr/share/perl being present. When making them I knew I would need to
handle this issue, but I figured I would just skip those tests. I was
persuaded to instead just make a mock /usr/share/perl in the test directory
to keep the test cases self sustaining. That seems like the obvious thing to
do, oh well.

If I can finish Pod::Html by Wednesday then I will be right on track with my
projected timeline. I have been working on Pod::Html for a whopping five and
a half weeks. In my proposal I naively gave myself 2.5 weeks to do
Pod::Html, and I clearly did not understand the complexity of the task.
However, because I started writing code at the start of the community
bonding period instead of the official coding period, I gained several
weeks, balancing out my work and the timeline.

Assuming I finish Pod::Html, I will start on Pod::Checker this week.

Thank you,
Marc